Inspiration:
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. –Albert Camus
“Friend”
by Kim K. Crawford Harvie, Senior Minister, Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts
Water, shelter, food … and a friend. A friend can save your life.
Rev. Dan Kane was cooking, I was washing, and what happened next was definitely my fault, although he says “we” broke it. Drying on the counter was a hand-painted platter that Dan and Darin had brought home from Italy, a large, expensive piece of pottery with significant sentimental value. And “we”—that is, I—somehow unsettled it and it dropped like a little bomb onto their kitchen floor, shattering into shards and dust with a c-r-a-s-h. I couldn’t believe it…. MORE
A moving and lovely reminder that friendship is a broad concept.
Reminds me of the Peter Mayer song & Kintsugi. Beautiful examples can be seen here: http://www.deadprogrammer.com/kintsugi-beautiful-repair/
Seeing the beauty in the brokenness is a powerful spiritual practice.
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